DIVISION FORM OF GOVERNMENT 

YEAR BOOK-1915 


SOCIETY 


WAGE RENT 


PROFIT OR WAGE 
SLAVERY 


SLAVERY 


CANNIBALISM 


THE END OF CIVILIZATION 

“It is impossible for civilization with the present Game to 
exist to the time when all undeveloped countries, now 
markets for the unconsumed surplus of the world, become 
developed and each have a surplus to export that exceeds 
the value of their imports. Civilization will go down before 
it reaches that development and is today fast approaching 
that condition." 

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Issue by 

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DIVISION FORM OF GOVERNMENT 


YEAR BOOK-1915 


SOCIETY 


WAGE RENT 


PROFIT OR WAGE 
SLAVERY 


SLAVERY 


CANNIBALISM 


THE END OF CIVILIZATION 

“It is impossible for civilization with the present Game to 
exist to the time when all undeveloped countries, now 
markets for the unconsumed surplus of the world, become 
developed and each have a surplus to export that exceeds 
the value of their imports. Civilization will go down before 
it reaches that development and is today fast approaching 
that condition.” 

DISCOVERED!—The next Game in Society. Introductory 
Issue by 

CHARLES ERICKSON JOHNSON 

Price 25c WAUPUN, WIS. 


Copyriflht 1315, hy Churls* Ericfcson Johnson 
















PREFACE 

The discovery of the new Game in society is one 
of the greatest, if not the greatest that can be made. 
The history of the past century is filled with wonder¬ 
ful discoveries and inventions all of which are great 
achievements. The Games of society are perhaps as 
great as all of the inventions that today bless the 
human race. Without a new Game when it becomes 
a necessity, Society begins to crumble and all the 
achievements of the past are lost and society again 
has to begin anew to learn over, building up by the 
same old ladder it climbed up before. 

History does not record any higher social order 
than the present social state we have today. Society 
has reached the highest pinnacle of success and 
stands today where other civilizations have stood just 
before they began to go backwards, disintegrate and 
fall to the bottom of the social ladder. Today we 
have the advantage of making a study of the 
mistakes of the past social orders and profiting by 
them. 

The lack of a new Game is the chief reason for 
the downfall of these social orders. Other reasons 
are the illiteracy of its people who are not high 
enough in the civilized state to make the new Game 
possible, or to be unable to discover the next Game, 
or Religion captures it. 

The discovery of the new Game of Wage Rent, 
like any other discovery, was one of chance. The 
Wage Rent system was carved before the new Game 
was discovered. The Year Book of the new Game 
will be published yearly to help establish it, to make 
it a higher social order than the present one. 

The Year Book of 1915 is an introductory issue 
to create a hope and a faith in the future. 

The workings of the Wage Rent system and its 
auditing system will be best demonstrated to the 
public by the stage or by motion-pictures. The most 
feasible plan will be chosen to introduce it. 

Dedicated to Humanity. 

Chas. E. Johnson, Author. 

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Evolution of the Game 

Time brings about in nature and human affairs 
information which really becomes a necessity to 
know. It has been said that with every effect there 
is a cause. Thus also it seems that for every necess¬ 
ity there is a solution. 

Time also brings about in nature and human 
affairs changes which affect society of which we 
form a part. Development of industry is perhaps 
the most pronounced change noticeable today. The 
advancement of Science is also a great change pro¬ 
ducer, putting in place of superstitious beliefs the 
cold facts of truth. Science teaches us that every¬ 
thing changes. No thing is at rest but is constantiy 
developing, changing. This is called Evolution. 

Evolution is an established fact as can be seen 
in any line of machinery. Take for instance harvest¬ 
ing machines. The Sickle, Cradle, Reaper, Self-binder, 
Header, and combined Harvester and Thresher. 
Each one of these tools and machines comes in suc¬ 
cession as an improvement over the other. Evolution 
of one's life are changes that take place from infancy 
to old age. Evolution of man, the changes that have 
taken place in the development of man to his present 
form. (Read “The Descent of Man” by Darwin.) 
The evolution of society also shows it is subject to 
the evolutionary development of change. It is these 
evolutionary changes which affect our lives and our 
happiness. Society is divided into several different 
distinct parts or branches. These branches are each 
subject to the evolutionary development of change. 
Each evolutionary change in one of these has a tend¬ 
ency to affect some of the other parts or branches, 
and cause evolutionary changes to occur in them. 


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Food 

Buying and selling 

Exchanging 



Distribution 

Barter 

Barter 

Money 

Div. Capital 



Medium of 
Exchange 

Small % 

30% 

82% 

25% 



Surplus 

Value 

Taken 

Tribal 

Tribal 

Monarchy 

Trust Monarchy and 
Representative. 

Trust, Auditing and 
Division Form 


Forms of 
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Table of the Evolutionary Changes of Society of Its 

Different Branches 

























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The branch which most affects society up to the 
present time is Production. The fierce struggle of 
the primitive man of the jungle for existence, began 
the solution of production. Production today shows 
that far more is produced than is consumed. 

A new problem has arisen for the individuals to 
solve. That is how to get more of this abundance 
that is produced. Society as we have it today is 
moulded entirely by a small minority, which operates 
it entirely to their liking and special gain. It is the 
greed of man’s nature or the desire for more that is 
building up society. The method or game that ex¬ 
tracts the most wealth from society is chosen to be 
the ruling method or game and society has to con¬ 
form and change its different parts or branches to 
suit it. In the struggle of man for existence and 
solving production, a small part of society struggles 
to take away from the rest what is not needed by 
them, or surplus value. The struggle has been a 
success. Capital today is able to take the lion’s 
share, while labor is only able to get the bare necess¬ 
ities of life. The struggle to keep in possession of 
the surplus value by this minority has been the 
means of bringing into existence society as it is today, 

In order to understand society we will have to 
study the lower stratas of it. Without this, one 
can not understand the present one (civilization) and 
the reasons for it. There are two branches which 
affect society, Production and the Game. The former 
is continually developing while the latter is changed 
only at certain intervals. The study of the Game 
will give one knowledge of the reasons for the 
changes in society. 

Going back to the time when man first began to 
assume an upright position, we will find him in the 
possession of a club. By means of the club he has 
discovered he can strike a death blow, a good protec- 


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tion from his numerous enemies of the jungle. In 
the fierce struggle for existence man learned that 
the club was not only a protection but a means to 
secure for him food and protection from the elements. 
He dressed himself in the skins of wild animals and 
lived in caves and hollow trees, Men at this stage 
are called wild men or primitive man, afraid of their 
own shadows, filled with superstitious beliefs, afraid 
of each other. In the fierce struggle nothing was 
spared, not even their own kin. Nearly everything 
that fell by his club became his food. The Game of 
these primitive men is called Cannibalism. 


The Beginning of Tribal Government 

The primitive men warred against each other, 
forced themselves to live secluded and used their 
club to secure their wives as well as their food. It 
was the strongest against the weakest. In their 
struggles against their enemies, other than them¬ 
selves, they possessed a greater reasoning power, 
which perhaps saved them from being exterminated 
by the more powerful animals of the jungle. This 
reasoning power also came to be used by the weaker 
members of primitive man to cooperate against the 
more powerful individuals, as for instance, two 
against one. Forced to flight, a couple of the weaker 
members fleeing together before their stronger mem¬ 
ber, are driven by necessity to combine their forces 
in order to prevent themselves from becoming vic¬ 
tims and food for their pursuer. The combined forces 
of the two overcame the stronger and laid the foun¬ 
dation for tribal and community living. The coope¬ 
ration of the two soon drove others to combine into 
pairs and into larger alliances. It then became tribe 
against tribe. They waged war against each other, 
but kept peace amongst the members of the tribes. 


The Game was still the same as was practiced before 
the tribal stage. They killed and ate their male 
captives and kept the women for their wives. 

Discovery of the New Game—Slavery 

The capture of many more captives than could 
be used for food resulted in putting them to work to 
produce from the soil something to keep them alive 
until they were needed for food. This practice re¬ 
sulted in the discovery that more could be taken out 
of their captives by putting them to work and living 
off what they produce, than by the old Game or 
method. The tribe that began to practice it soon 
began to grow powerful, forcing other tribes to 
adopt the new Game. This new Game is called 
Slavery. 


Forming of Kingdoms 

As the tribes grew larger and fewer in number, 
waging war against each other for more slaves, one 
of the large tribes began to see the folly of fighting 
amongst themselves. So a peace treaty was entered 
into by several of the large tribes that could see the 
advantage of cooperation. Thus an alliance was 
formed not to fight each other, to divide up the 
country into estates among themselves, elect one of 
their number King or chief ruler, bring in the re¬ 
maining tribes in their vicinity and make Slavery the 
prominent feature of their organization. 

The forming of a Kingdom and the power of 
this new organization forced other tribes remote 
from this vicinity to form similar Kingdoms. It then 
became kingdom against kingdom. The stronger 
kingdoms united the weaker ones which then formed 
Monarchies. 


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Discovering the Third Game—Profit 

The slavery system was a land proposition. The 
production of food from the soil resulted in the intro¬ 
duction of tools, horses and implements to help in 
the production. The necessity of tools to work up 
the soil resulted in the manufacturing of them. These 
rude tools produced were constantly being replaced 
by more perfected ones. As these tools became more 
perfected and the demand for them grew began to 
be established, another kind of production resulted, 
that of manufacturing. The few engaged in this 
kind of production began to see the possibility of 
another system or Game, By hiring the slaves to 
produce the tools necessary in agriculture and selling 
the goods to the tillers, a Profit could be made. 

Evolution of the Game 

The hiring of slaves gave them freedom to act 
independently of any master to choose their own 
boss. This freedom is called Civilization, made 
possible by the Game of Profit. It was discovered 
that it is more profitable to hire the laborer than own 
him. The laborer is a product of the Game of Slav¬ 
ery, a fit product for the use of cspital. 

In bringing about the changes necessary for the 
new game of Profit, the capitalist or manufacturer 
had to overcome an established form of government 
set up for the use of the Game of Slavery. The 
Capitalist had to overthrow the authority of this old 
system and establish a representative form necessary 
for the new Game of Profit. The set of men that 
wanted to hire and set the new Game in operation 
had first to free themselves. This was not accom¬ 
plished without great civil wars which are called 
revolutionary wars. It was the Capitalist against 
the landed class, the landed class on the one hand 


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fighting to retain the old system of exploitation of 
slaves, and Capital on the other hand seeking to 
establish freedom of contract and a constitutional 
form of government necessary for the new Game of 
Profit. With the establishment of these conditions 
by the Capitalists, Civilization was declared in force 
and to endure forever. 

The Formation of Trusts 

The formation of trusts was similar to the forma¬ 
tion of kingdoms. Instead of warfare, competition 
was used. At first every individual owned his own 
tools and workshop (this first beginning of the Game 
is known as individualism or equal rights and oppor¬ 
tunity for all) and sold the products of their shops in 
open competition with each other. The one who 
undersold the others were able to increase his busi¬ 
ness and hire more laborers to increase the output. 
It thus happened that rivalry amongst several large 
individual concerns, in competition with each other, 
drove some of the smaller concerns to unite into 
partnership business to be able to meet the prices of 
the larger individual concerns. The uniting of two 
businesses into one cut down expenses, enabling the 
partnership business to successfully compete with 
the larger concerns. This partnership business drove 
other individual concerns to form similar partnerships 
of two or more concerns. It then became companies 
against companies for business. The larger companies 
drove the smaller ones out of business until there 
were several large combinations of capital. 

But Profits, that which was so much sought 
after by the Capitalists, were very small in comparison 
to the volume of business done, due to the fierce 
competition between themselves. It was soon dis¬ 
covered that if an alliance could be formed between 


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several of the larger companies, not to compete with 
each other, this waste could be stopped and good 
profits assured. This led to peace treaties to not 
compete with each other, but put their holdings in 
one company in trust, elect one of their number 
president and a board of directors. Issuing stocks 
in proportion to the value of the holdinge put in the 
company, insured each holder of its stock his share 
of the profits made by the new organization. The 
forming of these new organizations made it possible 
to raise prices in many places of business and lower 
them in other places where competition was still 
working and drive more companies out of business. 

The more stock owned, the more influence the 
holder can exert on questions of running the new 
company or trust. If an individual own over one- 
half, he is said to have controlling interest and his 
will is the dominant force in the company's affairs 
and the living conditions of the laborers. 

Should wages be increased or decreased is to be 
settled by the capitalist owning the majority of stock 
or if the power is transferred to the board of 
directors it is settled by them. Shall unions be recog¬ 
nized or not? Shall their wage scale be accepted, or 
is the company fully able to decide what their labor¬ 
ers shall receive or not receive? 

Discoveries in the Evolution of the 
Game 

The discovery of most importance to man is the 
discovery of the different Games in society. Primi¬ 
tive man discovered that themselves, as well as 
animals, were fit for food, which forced them to live 
scattered and in fear of each other. Next the dis¬ 
covery by a tribe that more could be got out of their 


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captives by making them work and living off the 
products of their toil than by the old game of canni¬ 
balism. Then comes the discovery that it is more 
profitable to hire than own the laborer, which is the 
system of today. Now comes the last discovery I 
wish to introduce. Because the markets which im¬ 
port more than they export are continually growing 
less and the markets which export more than they 
import are increasing, it will be impossible in the 
near future to dispose of the surplus products of 
labor necessary to keep labor employed. It has been 
discovered that it is more profitable to take a small 
Wage Rent from all than to make a large profit off 
of a part of them. Were it not for the fact that the 
markets which import more than they export were 
dimishing, the present Game of Profit would be the 
most profitable. Wage Rent is the Game of the 
future. First, because it does not have to have 
markets for its unconsumed surplus. Second, a new 
Game is a dire necessity today. Labor is already 
affected by the diminishing markets for the uncon¬ 
sumed surplus. If labor is not employed Civilization 
will soon be a thing of the past. It will retrograde 
back to the dark ages of the tribal stage. The 
world today feels the need of a new Game. 

A great loss must be seen by the Capitalists of 
today because of not being able to exploit all of 
labor. Large bodies of unemployed roam the streets 
looking in vain for work. Most of them perhaps 
have families dependent on them for support. One 
of the most pitiable sights at present is to see one of 
these haggard-looking unemployed, searching for 
work and unable to find it. Most of this unemploy¬ 
ment comes in the dead of winter, making it any¬ 
thing but pleasure to hunt up work. Unemployment 
is on the increase. It will soon be summer as well 
as winter unemployment. Nothing but a Game that 


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does not need new markets or any markets will be 
able to save civilization and restore employment to 
all. The new Game of Wage Rent is the only Game 
that can fill these requirements. To establish it an 
entirely new system will have to be ushered in. The 
different branches of society must change to make 
possible the new Game. The Representative form of 
government must change to a Division form. The 
medium of exchange of money to Division Capital. 

The Division Form of Government 

Division Form of Government is a combined 
business and legislative government, a government 
well suited for the new Game of Wage Rent and an 
arbiter between capital and labor. It is a newspaper 
government by means of divisions, which enables an 
auditing system (to be used by Labor to make the 
prices of their products) to be possible. An audit¬ 
ing system of this character will establish democracy 
in price making. 

All governments (Division, Representative, and 
Monarchial) are merely adjuncts to the systems of 
the Game then in operation or being proposed and 
serve them that give them existence. As all govern¬ 
ments are heralded, it is simply that the government 
is suited to the needs of the Game then in operation 
or being proposed. 

The daily newspaper of today is a fit medium or 
the only medium by which the Division Government 
can be made possible. Our daily paper has a mission 
to perform other than carrying news and advertise¬ 
ments in the near future. Should the new Game of 
Wage Rent be put in operation, it will become a 
governing force or agency. 

The newspaper that takes kindly to and heralds 


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this new Game can also become the agency for it, 
and establish it in its locality. 

The trust or corporation, railroad company, or 
any other business that wishes to can then put the 
new Game in operation. The corporation or trust 
that adopts the new Game will forge ahead and 
compel its competitors to adopt it. 

Production Under Wage Rent System 

Production is now solved. It now becomes the 
problem of distribution. Distribution in the past 
under the slavery system was the giving to the slaves 
part of what they produced which was necessary for 
them and their families to live on and retaining the 
rest for themselves except a small portion which 
went to their government or king and his court. 
Distribution under the present system is to hire and 
force the laborer to get his own food and clothing by 
buying it. 

In both cases the portion or value of the goods in 
labor power was unknown. Distribution under the 
Wage Rent system by the form of government it 
employs will make the prices of goods on the basis of 
the amount of labor power expended, and the quantity 
produced and a distributing charge added. It was 
by distribution that the ruling minority were able to 
get most of the wealth which makes them the ruling 
element of society up to the present day. 

Production under the new Game will be carried 
on with a view of a Wage Rent. The number of hours 
worked by an individual laborer does not concern 
him, but the most productive machinery and the 
amount of work does, as that determines the price of 
the products. If the prices are higher than the aver¬ 
age or higher than some other manufacturer, his goods 
are apt to be held and his appropriations stopped, 


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The incentive to hire labor more than necessary just 
to get the Wage Rent, will be kept down by the fear 
of unredeemed appropriations. 

The Evolution Wage Scale 

The Evolution Wage Scale should be adopted by 
both labor and capital to form a basis as to what 
labor should receive an hour. Today there is only a 
blind idea as to the right wages to be paid. Strikes 
and labor wars in the different parts of the United 
States testify to this. 

The Evolution Wage Scale is influenced by the 
productive machinery. The more productive machin¬ 
ery the higher the wage scale. The higher wage 
scale will be governed by three incentives—that it 
will make goods cheaper, that it will be the incentive 
for capital as well as labor to adopt the new wage 
scale. 

Generally the higher the wage scale the more 
wage rent unless the machine throws too many out 
into other industries. 




An Evolution Wage Scale for Agriculture 


50c 

Per Hour 

Gang of eight 

24 ft. cultivator 

6 ft. mower 

12 ft. tedder 

12 ft. rake 

Comb. har. & thr. 

35 in. cylinder 

35c 

Per Hour 

Gang of four 

12 ft. cultivator 

12 ft. seeder 

5£ ft. mower 

10 ft. tedder 

10 ft. rake 

Header 

20 in. cylinder 

25c 

Per hour 

Gang plow of two 
8 ft. cultivator 

20 ft. drag 

8 ft. seeder 

5 ft. mower 

8 ft. tedder 

8 ft. rake 

6 ft. binder 

10 in. thresher 

15c 

per hour 

Walking plow 
Hand cultivator 

10 ft. drag 

6 ft. seeder 

3 ft. mower 

6 ft. tedder 

6 ft. rake 

Reaper 

Hand thresher 

5c 

Per Hour 

Spade 

One 5ft. 

Hand seeding 
Scythe 

Hand turning 
Hand rake 
Cradle 

Flail 

Machinery 

for 

Plowing 

Cultivating 

Dragging 

Seeding 

Mowing 

Tedding 

Raking 

Harvesting 

Thrashing 


The Evolution Wage Scale should go a long way to settle the dispute of what 

the wage scale per hour should be. 

















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New Medium of Exchange—Division Capital 

Money as a medium of exchange for the Game 
of Wage Rent is valueless as long as the Profit 
system is in existence. The dollar, half dollar, 
quarter, dime, nickel, and cent piece can be made 
use of if only exchange goods were to be had. Coin 
is only useful in small exchanges. Greenbacks and 
bank notes are useless; even coin can be dispensed 
with. People like to handle the cash; it is a popular 
medium of exchange. Money has nothing to do with 
the making of the prices of products either in the 
Profit or Wage Rent systems. It is merely a medium 
of exchange for goods or labor power. The wealth 
of a person is expressed in dollars and cents. Money 
has no power though it is often spoken of as money 
rules this country. Yes, he is worth $100,000. Money 
in this last mentioned case is only a means of rating 
the wealth of a person, just as horsepower is used in 
rating the strength of an engine. Money has no 
power, it is only a handy means of exchange. For 
example, if a horse is worth a hundred dollars and 
you wanted to exchange it for groceries, clothing, 
etc., and it came to sixty dollars, nothing but money 
would be able to make the exchange, provided you 
were not a resident in the community. Money is 
valuable as a means of exchange and for convenience. 
A horse worth a hundred dollars can by sale for 
money be exchanged for groceries. The horse is 
valuable as a means of travel, riding horseback, for 
instance. Money is valuable as a means of exchange. 
A hundred dollars can be divided into ten thousand 
parts which gives it an exchange value and makes it 
a valuable means of exchange, It also is valuable as 
a conveyance, as in traveling. Money is only a 
servant of man; it is an improvement over the old 
method of barter. 


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A medium of exchange in the new game of Wage 
Rent in exchange for labor-power, must be a medium 
that not only acts as an exchange for labor-power 
but also acts as a medium by which the prices of the 
products is determined. Money is an unknown quant¬ 
ity. What we want is a medium of exchange that 
has two functions. First: To exchange for labor- 
power and form the basis of determining the prices 
of the articles produced by the labor-power expended. 
A medium of exchange that will disappear when the 
goods are gone. A medium of exchange that is limited 
to the amount of labor-power expressed in the goods. 
These qualities are only found in the medium of ex¬ 
change of the Wage Rent system—Division Capital. 

In the use of Division Capital the labor-power of 
the products is known, making it easy to form the 
prices of them by labor. 

Division Capital is coined or produced only when 
the product is produced, or labor is employed. 

By the auditing system of the Game of Wage 
Rent, Division Capital can be deposited, loaned, in¬ 
terest and taxes can be paid by it. It is safer than 
money. It will exchange for more produce than 
money. It is next to the land in that it cannot be 
run away with. If taxes were paid by it, it would 
enable the taxpayers to know where it went to and 
whether it was used wisely or squandered. It requires 
no safety vault to keep thieves from stealing it. 

Interest by Division Capital 

The giving and taking of interest is for the bene¬ 
fit of the public. Little or no capital could be bor¬ 
rowed unless the person having it was induced to 
loan or part with it on good security with interest. 

The borrowing of capital is sometimes a necessity 
as in case of sickness, fire, etc. A young man, who 


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at the age of 21, wishes to build a house (on a 
lot which he has paid for) on borrowed capital, would 
be able to do so, giving the house and lot as security 
for the loan. This would enable the young people 
to start in life with a home of their own. 


Land Under the Wage Rent System 

Government ownership of land is often advo¬ 
cated as a means to restore opportunities to all. 
Land should always be privately owned, for several 
reasons, first that it furnishes one of the best means 
for placing loans. Second, it enables the Game to 
be played. Third, it is the foundation of progress 
as it enables the minority of society to prosper and 
advance society to new fields of endeavor. Our real 
rulers are not our government but the minority own¬ 
ers of our industry who keep the present Game 
going by continuing to hire labor, making possible 
civilization. The game is a necessity to society. Labor 
cannot be employed unless someone having capital 
employes them. Without the Games we would have 
no society today. The private ownership of land 
enables the Games to elevate society from savagery 
to civilization. 

All land owners can be Division Capitalists. 
Anyone can, by saving their wages, buy land, build 
and maintain a business of some kind or by farming 
would become independent. The advantages to be 
received by the farmer under the new Game, are that 
he can get his farm machinery at cost of production. 
He would receive far more by the evolution wage 
scale than he receives at present by selling his pro¬ 
ducts. He would be forced to play the new Game 
and make the prices of his products on the basis of 
labor-power expended and amount produced. Many 
of the farmers today believe that some kind of an 


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organization should be formed for the purpose of 
making the labor-power expended and amount of 
production, make the price of the article. 

As appropriations are allowed him to hire labor 
and Wage Rent is given from the help he hires, the 
products of his farm belongs to society and the price 
of it is formed by the auditing system of Division 
government. 

The Auditing system of the Division government 
is the main feature of the Wage Rent system. By it 
every business account is kept track of. It is a serv¬ 
ant of capital. It has nothing to do with the running 
of business, it leaves that to the Capitalists. It makes 
the prices of their products on the basis of labor- 
power expended and amount of production. It issues 
appropriations and sees that they are redeemed. It 
gives deposits for loans on small interest. It gives 
safe deposits for saving of the laborers with interest. 

Appropriations 

The character of this new kind of capital will 
make it necessary to issue appropriations to the indi¬ 
vidual, company, and corporation that wishes to 
employ labor. It is for prevention of production of 
goods that cannot be used and to prevent overpro¬ 
duction. Appropriations are issued to a company. 
When labor is employed, appropriations are being 
used up. When the products of the company are 
placed in the exchange or public market, the appro¬ 
priations are being redeemed. Then more appropria¬ 
tions are issued to the company for more production 
of that kind of goods. Should the appropriations not 
be redeemed, appropriations to the company will 
stop. Then comes the sale of the company's busi¬ 
ness concern or manufacturing plant to redeem the 
appropriations issued to said company. 


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Appropriations should never be issued to a com¬ 
pany in an amount exceeding two-thirds of the value 
of its plant. Appropriations can then be redeemed 
if its products are valueless. 

Appropriations are not only issued to manufac¬ 
turing-concerns but to all who employ labor or to an 
individual who employes himself as, for instance, a 
cobbler, a blacksmith, a person running a peanut 
and popcorn-stand, barber-shop or any other business 
that uses Division Capital instead of money. 

Under the Game of Wage Rent the Division Cap¬ 
italists will force the use of the new kind of capital 
by all, the same as money is forced to be used by all 
today. The use of money is often termed wage 
slavery. It is in fact slavery, only a different form 
of it. The chattel slave is given food which is only 
a part of what he has or is made to produce. The 
laborer is given money with which he buys his own 
food. He is not able to buy back or able to possess 
as large a per cent, of the product of his toil as the 
chattel slave. 

Appropriations are divided into four kinds: 
Appropriations for Agricultural products, Manufac¬ 
turing concerns, Public Service concerns, and Dis¬ 
tributing concerns. As appropriations have to be 
redeemed, the distributing charges on goods, hotel 
charges for rooms, restaurant charges for meals, 
theater charges for seats, etc., are either lowered or 
raised to redeem the appropriation issued to them. 
Competition between the different companies will be 
in the rates charged. A hotel that charges more for 
their rooms than another hotel without giving any 
better furnished rooms, is liable to have less roomers 
than the other hotel. The hotel charges for rooms 
does not go to the hotel owner but goes to redeem 
the appropriations issued him to enable him to play 


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the new Game of Wage Rent. Profits is unlimited 
pelf. Wage Rent is limited pelf. 

Labor Concessions 

Labor increases in wealth, comforts, education, 
and happiness in proportion to the advancement of 
society in the Game. Labor is benefited by the con¬ 
stitutional form of government in place of the one 
man government by the Game of Profit. It is also 
indebted to it for its freedom from chattel slavery 
and serfdom. The chattel slaves and serfs tried 
many times to free themselves but were unable to do 
so. The Profit System is a product of necessity. 
When the slave system began to break down, the 
new game of Profit took up the task of giving society 
a chance to live on, and now the Profit system is 
beginning to fail to work and must be replaced by 
another Game. Many attempts are being made to 
patch up the system but it is breaking down. Also 
other attempts are made to make the trusts common 
property, or the government to own them and run 
them for the benefit of all. This I claim is not in 
line with evolution of society. Common ownership 
was advocated for the large estates in Europe, but it 
was the Game of Profit that brought advancement in 
society. 

Society has always had a Game and it looks as 
though any other plan without it must be considered 
a Utopian dream. 

The Game of Wage Rent will give to labor the 
products of their toil except the Wage Rent or per¬ 
centage allowed capital to run the business. It will 
also give legislation by means of the Divisions and 
the Press. 

The public does not gain in concessions from the 
minority class or capitalists as it does from the 


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Games in society. The next Game will mean a great 
advancement in the morals, educational arts will be 
added, the greater increase of wealth to all resulting 
from the evolutionary wage scale. 

The evolutionary wage scale will make the next 
Game the hope of all. It will give to labor twice as 
much or more than it is receiving at present and be 
able to get goods at cost of production. 


Capital Concessions or Gains 

The minority rulers of society today are the 
capitalists who are hiring labor to exploit them for 
profits. They are known as the Burgeoise Society. 
Under the capitalists rule production is solved and 
their system is on the decline; it has fulfilled its 
mission. Society wants a change. The Profit system 
is too much of a success for a few. The ruling 
minority of one Game will not necessarily be the 
ruling minority in the next. In Europe the capitalists 
have to share their government with the landlords, 
the old minority rulers of the old Game. A new 
game is generally championed by a new set who 
dispute their authority, herald to the people the free¬ 
dom to be obtained by the new form of government 
and get their support. The primer capitalist worked 
the peasants in Europe to their support in getting 
their government established by two very important 
issues—freedom from slavery and representation in 
the government. The new Game will most likely be 
championed by a new set who in order to be able to 
establish the necessary government will have to get 
the support of the public by heralding the advantages 
to be obtained by its establishment. Several import¬ 
ant issues can be advanced or promised and which 
the Division government can make good. First; it 
will establish democracy in price making, making it 


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possible for people to get goods at cost of production. 
Second; law making by the people. Third; the evo¬ 
lution wage scale, which will settle disputes between 
capital and labor. Fourth; the advantages of the 
government that brings increased wealth and leisure 
time; the advantages of all for learning and culture 
and pursuit of happiness. Fifth; the necessity of 
the government that will make new markets an un¬ 
necessary factor in our industrial life, one of the 
chief causes of wars and unemployment. 

The Game Today—The Profit System 

Nearly everything today is bought and sold. 
Hardly anything escapes it. It is the profit system; 
the system that has created the trusts that are a 
threatening menace to our democratic institutions; 
the system that has created the richest men the 
world ever knew—mult-imillionaires: the system that 
has divided society into the opposing forces, Capital 
and Labor; the system that supplanted the old system 
of slavery as being the greatest extractor of wealth 
from the toiling millions. 

It is the game of Profit that is being played and 
which is responsible for the high cost of living. It 
is the Game that advances society. Yet the present 
game is responsible for the high cost of living, which 
only proves that the profit Game is played out. A 
new Game is needed to be put into operation to take 
the place of the old one. 

The Game of profit is to buy the labor-power of 
the worker and sell the products of their toil back to 
them or to other parties, for more than it cost to pro¬ 
duce them, or making a profit on the transaction. 

The laborer sells his labor-power to capital for 
money, as money is demanded for the produce of 
or necessities. 


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Produce is produced not for the benefit of the 
public, but to sell. It is distributed not for the benefit 
of the public but for profits. In making the profits, 
the goods are manufactured and distributed. That 
is the game today. 

The greatest gainers of the present system are 
the minority rulers of society. The surplus value of 
the laboring people go to this small minority who by 
their great accumulation of wealth are able to control 
the lives of the vast toiling millions of working 
people and also are able to control our state and 
national governments. 

Profit is the only incentive that capital has to 
employ labor and run industries. In the early stages 
of the game, profits were not a burden, but with the 
coming of the trusts and monopolies, profits began to 
go to fewer individuals. The lack of competition also 
enabled them to set the prices as high as they liked. 
This enabled stock-watering and the soaring of prices 
to keep up to the inflated watered stock. This is the 
reason for the high cost of living. 

Unemployment and War 

The nature of the profit system is to produce 
everything at cost or as near possible what it cost the 
laborer to live on, the bare necessities of life. The 
coming of machinery enabling a laborer to accomplish 
in one hour what it took him a day or a week to do 
enabled Capital to create a surplus. This surplus 
belongs to Capitalists who hire labor to produce it. 

Capital gives to labor only a small wage, not 
enough to buy back in many industries one-half what 
they produce. Thus a surplus is created. As every 
industry is in the same condition, it makes it impera¬ 
tive that this surplus is got rid of in order that labor 
shall be kept employed. Should this surplus not be 


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found marketable, a panic comes and labor is thrown 
out of work. Labor then has to roam the streets and 
starve until the surplus is used up or another new 
market is found. Generally a panic results when an 
undeveloped country that has been the market for 
the unconsumed surplus becomes itself productive 
and looking for markets for its surplus. The surplus 
products of labor are, on account of ever increasing 
use of more productive machinery, on the increase, 
while the undeveloped contries, or countries that 
consume more than they export, are continually 
growing less. It is only a question of time when 
these markets will be able to use only a partial supply 
of this surplus if it is not already the case today. 
The unconsumed surplus cannot be disposed of ex¬ 
cept by exporting to other countries. Capital will 
not give back to labor what it has taken away. Wars 
will be fought between the different capitalists of 
the different nations to wrest from each other the 
markets for their unconsumed surplus. Capitalists 
of Europe are today fighting amongst themselves 
over these remaining markets of the world situated 
in Africa, South America, China and Turkey. 

The Wage Rent System and War 

War, the most destructive force in society, occurs 
when the Game requires it, or when the prestige of a 
nation is in danger, and other causes. Civil wars are 
when the people rebel against their government. 
Labor wars are when laborers are on strike for higher 
wages. Revolutionary wars are wars to establish a 
new game and government. Competitive wars are 
wars of underselling products of the same kind by 
one or more companies or corporations. 

Primitive man was in war all the time. The 
game required it. So long as he knew no other way 
he was compelled to play it. When slavery was dis- 


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covered, war became a side-line to be used in connec¬ 
tion with the new Game to help to enlarge and build 
it up. When the Game of Profit was put in operation, 
war became the last resort, as for instance, to open 
up new markets. Under the new Game of Wage 
Rent, it will be for more territory for population. 
Population increases in density as society advances 
in the Game. Under the Wage Rent system popu¬ 
lation will be denser than under any other previous 
system. The greater wealth going to labor under 
the Wage Rent system will make it possible for all to 
have homes. 

The growing population on the one hand and the 
limited territory on the other will make it necessary 
for the Division capitalists to acquire more territory. 
As all territory is inhabited, it will mean wars to 
acquire it. These wars are really necessary to gain 
for posterity and increasing population the means to 
live by. 

Wars, on account of class antagonism, will be 
race wars or wars for the racial supremacy of the 
world, (the Darwin theory) “the survival of the 
fittest” 

What race will survive the others in owning and 
populating the world? 

What race is best fitted to the task? Will it be 
the yellow or Mongolian on account of their numbers, 
or the black or Ethiopian on account of their large 
families, or will it be the white or Caucasian on ac¬ 
count of their color or their superior intelligence? 

What nationality will survive the others if it is 
to be inhabited by the white race, or will an alliance 
be formed by several nationalities of the white race 
as against the other races of the world? If an alli¬ 
ance is formed, what nationalities will form this alli¬ 
ance? It will, perhaps, be the nationalities that 


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make the most congenial citizens and neighbors; that 
makes the least disturbance and are an influence in 
elevating society to higher planes of living. 

The problem of over-population need never be a 
problem until the world is inhabited by one race. 
The racial wars will help to keep down population. 

The keeping of the wolf of hunger and want 
away from the door, caused by non-employment, 
which today is a family affair, will become under the 
Wage Rent system, a racial affair or the duty of the 
division capitalist to keep on hiring labor, to gain new 
territories either by wars or other methods of con¬ 
quests. 

Wars between the nations of Europe will not end 
until the trusts of the different nations are amalga¬ 
mated or trustified. International treaties are of no 
lasting value. It will be clear to be seen some day 
that they will lose out in fighting amongst them¬ 
selves, that unity of peace and government entered 
into by the different nations of the white race will be 
the only means by which they can keep from fighting 
amongst themselves. 

The latest discovery is to allow labor to own and 
and make its own prices for its products and to take 
a Wage Rent instead of a profit. 

When it was discovered that it was more profit¬ 
able to hire than own their help and were able to see 
how the profit system worked, they began to herald 
freedom that they wanted. Let them have their 
freedom; we will hire them. 

The new war cry can be, Let them have their 
products if they want it. We will hire on a Wage 
Rent basis. Let them have their products; why 
bother about the worthless stuff that can't be got rid 
of on account of lack of markets. Why bother about 
the prices of the stuff. Establish an auditing system 


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in the government to do the job. Push onto the gov¬ 
ernment what becomes unprofitable to you. 

The Mission of the Wage Rent System 

The Profit system cannot complete what it has 
started out to do. It cannot drive out all or absorb 
all of the middle and individualist classes. Unem¬ 
ployment and wars for markets comes before it is 
completed. The Profit system is too cannibalistic. 
Capital takes too much from labor as the markets of 
the world cannot consume it. It wastes too much. 
Too much labor goes unemployed. It has become too 
much like the game of cannibalism that was only 
able to divide society into two classes, the middle and 
individualist classes. It took another game to com¬ 
plete what has been started. The Game of slavery 
was able to complete the forming of the three classes 
of society and cause the disappearing and the absorp¬ 
tion of the individualistic and middle class by the 
ruling class. The Game of Profit was able to divide 
society into the three classes but is unable to cause 
the disappearance of the individualistic and middle 
classes. Unemployment and wars for markets comes 
before it is completed. The new Game of Wage Rent 
will give to society a system that does not require 
new markets to keep labor employed, thus giving 
society a chance to live on. 

The Fifth Amalgamation 

Society has had four amalgamations up to the 
present time. The first occurred when the game of 
cannibalism was being played, the uniting of the 
weaker members into twos and threes against their 
stronger members, resulting in the formation of 
tribes. The second occurred when the larger tribes 


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formed peace treaties not to fight each other resulting 
in the formation of kingdoms. The third occurred 
under the game of profit, when two individual manu¬ 
facturing concerns united into partnership to be able 
to compete with the stronger individual concern 
resulting in the formation of companies. The fourth 
amalgamation occurred when several of the larger 
companies in the same business formed peace treaties 
not to compete with each other resulting in the 
formation of trusts. The fifth amalgamation will 
occur under the new system of the game of Wage 
Rent. 

Classes of Society 

These amalgamations divide society into three 
classes known as Individualism, Middle, and Ruling 
class. Individualism occurs when a new game is 
started. The first individualism occurred before the 
first amalgamation. The first amalgamation divides 
society into tribes and wildmen or middle class and 
individualism. The second amalgamation divides 
society into three parts—the ruling class, middle 
class, and individual class. The two latter classes 
are constantly being absorbed by the former class or 
ruling class until they disappear. The ruling class 
is overthrown by the beginning of a new game. 
Individualism again appears and the middle and 
another ruling class makes their appearance. Indi¬ 
vidualist class of the present game are the farmers, 
individual storekeepers, individual manufacturing 
concerns. The middle-men are the business-men or 
companies that are not in the trusts. These two 
classes are the disappearing classes today, being 
absorbed gradually by the ruling class or trust 
class. The wildmen and tribes have disappeared, 
absorbed by the ruling class in their organization 
of kingdoms. Cannibalism today is practiced only in 


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remote out-of-the-way places. Slavery is also prac¬ 
ticed in out-of-the-way places; only the game of 
profit is the universal game today. 

Amalgamation is co-operation between two or 
more for their special benefit or gain. Co-operation 
seems to be only a success to those who are head- 
players of the Game. The Game in society is supreme; 
its co-operation is a success; all other co-operation 
must be or remain of minor importance. Should a 
system of co-operation succeed without a Game it 
would be a freak society and perhaps of no lasting 
duration. 


Morals of the Games 

When slavery was discovered to be more profit¬ 
able, it became immoral to kill the captives, which 
created the moral—“Thou shalt not kill.When they 
began to live as neighbors it created another moral— 
“Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” The 
owning of property created the moral—“Thou shalt 
not steal/’ Other morals such as religious morals 
were used to keep them in fear and to respect these 
main morals. More morals are being added as 
a new game comes into existence. During war-time, 
almost all morals are thrown aside. They are only 
useful in times of peace. 

When the Game of slavery was discovered and 
started, it was after the first amalgamation. The 
tribes or middle-class was already formed. Slavery 
began in the tribal stage before the forming of king¬ 
doms. The profit system began with individualism 
passing on to the Middle and to the Ruling stage. 
The Wage Rent system will be started either by the 
middle or trust class which will revolutionize business 
and establish a world government. Another amalga- 


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mation will take place between the different trusts 
of the different nations of the white race, not to fight 
each other but make Wage Rent the prominent fea¬ 
ture of their plan. Their motto should be: World 
Government, World Rent, and Racial Supremacy of 
the White Race. 











CONTENTS 

Evolution of the Game. 3 

Production Under the New Game . 13 

The New Medium of Enchange.16 

Land Under the New System.18 

Appropriations.19 

Labor Concessions.21 

The Game Today.23 

Unemployment and War.24 

Wage Rent System and War.25 

The Mission of the Wage Rent System.28 

The Amalgamation 


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